>On the Chech coin of 20 Crowns is a picture of an astrolabe.
>Is this a copy of an existing one or is it a design made only for the coin?
I was in Brno, Czech Republic last year and got one of these in
my change. I went back again later for a vacation and asked at our
hotel to see if they had any because I would have liked a few extra.
The receptionist was very obliging, opening 2, 3 or more bags of 20
Korunna coins and in over 100 coins she only found one more. (She had
not even noticed them before). These were issued for the Millennium. I
have a picture of one if you need it.
I asked on the RETE network if anyone else had seen one and I
got a couple of replies. It seems that the coin depicts a typical early
astrolabe, (possibly one in a Prague museum, but as it has no star
pointers, it is just a simple depiction of such a device. Even so, it
is a cheap astrolabe that anyone can own - if they can find one.
Good hunting!
Regards,
Mike Cowham.
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Cambridge, UK.
